Utah man, 55, who used to encourage bats to land on his hands to feed becomes the state's first rabies death since 1944 'The bats would lick our fingers, almost like they could taste the saltiness of our fingers, but they never bit us,' Juanita Giles said Gary Giles, 55 , from Utah has become the state's first recorded rabies death in nearly three-quarters of a century, passing away after being taken off of life support on Sunday after slipping into a coma Gary Giles, 55, passed away on Sunday at the Intermountain Medical Center hospital in Murray, Utah, surrounded by his family, according to his obituary .
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Gary Giles , 55, died Sunday, but struggled for weeks with an slowly progressing disease that doctors couldn't stop from infecting his brain and other organs, ultimately leading to his death. He and his wife, Juanita Giles, didn't realize that the bats that had frequented their home were carriers of a rabid and highly contagious virus.
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